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- noun A variant spelling of
beanpole .
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Examples
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Even my bean-pole, skinniest friends hate something about themselves.
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Even my bean-pole, skinniest friends hate something about themselves.
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Mod 6 on ARN is as pro-ID biased as a bean-pole is against strawberry growers.
A Post-Wedge World 2005
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He is built on bean-pole lines, stands several inches over 6 feet and carries just enough flesh to knit his bones together.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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He is built on bean-pole lines, stands several inches over 6 feet and carries just enough flesh to knit his bones together.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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He is built on bean-pole lines, stands several inches over 6 feet and carries just enough flesh to knit his bones together.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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Cambronne was an immensely tall bean-pole of a man.
Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958
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He was an animate, but not an animated, bean-pole.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights
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This was an ancient dressing-gown, very small in the arms, and narrow in the back: it had belonged to Twynintuft himself, who was six feet two, and as thin as a bean-pole.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various
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"There was a schoolmaster down here once, and they asked him what it meant, and he said it had no more meaning than a bean-pole."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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